Wessel v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 116, April T., 1905, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., May T., 1903, No. 523, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Charles A. Wessel and Mary Wessel v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. Trespass for death of plaintiff’s minor son. Before Mc-Clixng, J. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,200. Defendant appealed. ■Error assigned was in refusing binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The single question presented by the record is, did the plaintiffs’ evidence justify the submission of the case to the jury ? It appears from this evidence that the son of the plaintiffs, a young man nineteen years of age, had been at work about two or three weeks as an apprentice in the machine shop department of the defendant immediately prior to March 11, 1903. On that day a machinist, Reginald Makepeace, was directed by the foreman of the shop to put an overhead belt on the main shafting. His instruction was to put the belt on at dinner time. Smith was the master…
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